Caro Kann Defence - Complete Repertoire

The Caro–Kann Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. e4 c6 The Caro–Kann is a common defence against the King's Pawn Opening and is classified as a "Semi-Open Game" like the Sicilian Defence and French Defence, although it is thought to be more solid and less dynamic than either of those openings. It often leads to good endgames for Black, who has the better pawn structure. The Caro–Kann allows Black to circumvent enormous bodies of theory of various responses to 1.e4 such as the Ruy Lopez and the Sicilian Defence. Unlike its sister opening, the French Defence, the Caro–Kann allows Black to develop their light-squared bishop, although at the cost of a tempo because Black has to play 1.c6 before pushing the pawn to c5, whereas in the French defence Black can push c5 in one move. The drawbacks of the Caro–Kann are that white can combat it in several different ways, often gaining a space advantage and black has less mobility and a lag in development. In present-day

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Caro-Kann Defense